How Judaism Can Save Our Humanity from AI

Last year, the computer scientist, legal scholar, and Jewish thinker Moshe Koppel took an in-depth look at what the coming era of artificial intelligence means for Judaism. Now that programs like ChatGPT are being used widely, are changing (or threatening) education, and have started posing new dangers to social and moral life, Koppel returns to these themes to suggest how Judaism could shield humanity from some of the deleterious effects of these technologies. Judaism’s answer to the “debilitating drift” that they bring, he writes, is discipline: